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"title": "How sweet",
"body": "I have been waiting for something like this since I got my iPhone. TidBITS is always great with content but adding this elegant interface is just icing on the cake. Providing landscape mode would provide some nice decoration on that sweet icing. My wife just elbowed me because I have been paying attention to this app instead of watching the college basketball game we are attending. And, our team is winning what sounds like an exciting game.",
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"body": "I have always loved Tidbits and this is a perfect way to get great info on the go. It works as they said, is simple, I can easily pick the articles I want to read, leave others for when I get home. Always very usable info. Thanks for this new feature.",
"author": "YogaJohn",
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"body": "My favorite Technology news outlet has released what is now my favorite news app. The attention to detail Adam and Tonya and the gang show in their writing shines through in this app, too. Good clean interface with a great feature set. Definitely a \"must have\" for any Tidbits fan.",
"author": "davegerlits",
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"title": "Fantastic, fixed the one bug that bothered me.",
"body": "I reported a bug, TidBITS didn’t work with voiceover. They fixed it, fantastic! It works wonderfully now. Really appreciate that.",
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"title": "Content 5⭐️, app no longer functional.",
"body": "\"Error: failed to download latest Tidbits feed.\" That's all, folks.",
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"notes": "* Fixes a bug where the user could evoke an error dialog by tapping the Reload button while the data was being downloaded. * Works around a difference between iPhone OS 3.1 and iPhone OS 3.2 so that the iPhone version of the app displays correctly on an iPad."
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"notes": "* Allows background music to continue playing while in the app * Fixes a minor image display bug on the iPad"
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"notes": "Bug fixes. Rewritten from the ground up for iOS 6 and iPhone 5 (and now requires iOS 6)."
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"notes": "Added 64-bit architecture. Rewritten from scratch, in Swift, as an iOS-10 native app."
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"notes": "Work around crash when switching between apps on iPad."
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"notes": "Major interface modernization; works with revised TidBITS feed. Restore offline mode. Many bug fixes under the hood. Updated for iOS 12, Swift 4.2."
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"notes": "Work around RSS feed bug where HTML entities can appear in article title. Work around crashing bug where user permission is required to save image from web view."
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"notes": "New feature: track which articles have been read (swipe left to toggle). Added haptic feedback (iPhone only). Removed audio player because articles are no longer recorded. Modernized for iOS 14; big interface cleanup and behind-the-scenes reorganization."
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